Copy of Big Data is a Hotbed of Thoughtcrime. So What?

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"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed -- would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper -- the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it." - George Orwell, "1984" The HUMAN BRAIN has 1 trillion connections which can store 2,500 terabytes 2,500 terabytes= 3,000,000 hours of TV your DVR could hold 300 years of programming to use up that much storage. Jim Adler IS A HOTBED OF THOUGHTCRIME. SO WHAT? STRATA CONFERENCE, Fall 2012 Chief Privacy Officer & General Manager of Data Systemsinome, the Intelius data platform BIG DATA Obsession SocialIneptitude Intelligence Geek Dork Dweeb Nerd twitter: @jim_adler, http://jimadler.me I'm not an attorney What is Thoughtcrime? "Watch your thoughts, they become words.Watch your words, they become actions.Watch your actions, they become habits.Watch your habits, they become your character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."

Lao Tzu If Data Wants to be Free, Is Privacy a Prison? w/ Solon Barocas & Alex Howard In April 2012, Tarek Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, sentenced to 17 years in prison for: Two counts of making false statements Providing material support to terroristsConspiracy to provide material support to terrorists Conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country Conspiracy to make false statements to the FBI In March 2012, David Stone Sr., Joshua Stone and Joshua Clough, U.S. citizens and members of the Midwest militia group Hutaree, were acquitted of charges related to conspiracy and sedition, citing freedom of speech and beliefs. When is Speech Criminal? Clear and present dangerFighting wordsLibel and slanderObscenityConflict with legitimate social Interests (like gag orders)Time, place, & manner (like disturbing the peace) The HUMAN BRAIN has a compute capacity of 100 - 20,000 teraflops Hans Moravec, Carnegie Mellon Chris Westbury, University of Alberta Paul Reber, Northwestern University Getting your Head in the Cloud compute: 4 Million AWS m1.large nodesstorage: 2,500 terabytesnetwork: ignored (for now) A brain for under $1M/year in < 20 years Joshua Foust, American Security Project, The Atlantic Addenda A 2009 MIT study found it was possible to predict men's sexual orientation by analyzing the gender and sexuality of their social network contacts -- even if the rest of the information on their profile is set to private. "Gaydar" "That pulls the rug out from a whole policy and technology perspective that the point is to give you control over your information - because you don't have control over your information."MIT Professor Hal Abelson Deploy officers to locations where crimes are likely to occur before they are actually committed.

Now deployed in Los Angeles, New York, Santa Cruz CA, Columbia & Charleston SC. Brooklyn-born Betim Kaziu found guilty of conspiracy to provide military support to a terrorist organization and sentenced to 27 years in prison. According to the Boston Globe, the conspiracy didn’t get very far: he and a childhood friend traveled to Cairo where they went to school and considered whether to take up arms in the Middle East.July 2011 References